After a death, a green pillar of light marks where your body lies, and if you reach it you can take your items back. If a carnivore eats the body, a small bag is left; if not, the body itself holds the items, and players report that the spot where you can interact with it is very small.
The beam and the timers are server settings: bUseCorpseLocator switches the beam, and GlobalCorpseDecompositionTimeMultiplier, GlobalItemDecompositionTimeMultiplier and UseCorpseLifeSpanMultiplier scale how long corpses and dropped items last. On default settings, players report that single dropped items despawn after about 2 minutes and a bag made from a whole inventory lasts up to about 90 minutes. This cluster's timers have not been measured, so go back as soon as you can. One ASA player reports that a death bag holds at most 300 items; anything above that is lost.
Some losses were game bugs. ASA v93 (27/08/2026) fixed inventory loss when a creature consumed a body during Genesis Gauntlet Missions, and a separate "Pick Up All Nearby" issue near inventory capacity. Those fixes do not establish that every missing death bag is fixed. A body can also end up inside the terrain: a 2026 ASA report describes being placed underground after dismounting a Desmodus.
On our ASA maps, the AP: Death Recovery mod adds a Recovery Stone. The mod's page says it unlocks at level 25 and lets you recover the items from your latest death. ASE runs no mods, so on ASE your items are only on the body or in the bag.
Ask when a bug, not an ordinary death, took the body or the items: the body fell under the map, a creature ate it and no bag appeared, or items vanished while you picked them up. An admin can confirm the death and its time in the Tribe Log and read the hourly backups to see what you carried. Where a fault took the items, an admin may restore them from a backup made before the loss; you must be online on that map to receive them. Gear lost in an ordinary death is not replaced automatically: any replacement is the owner's decision, case by case. Add the place where you died (LAT/LON) to your message.
Tell an admin the map, the time (the clock in your profile menu shows the server's time), your character's name, what you carried or had uploaded, and the exact message on the screen. For a transfer: both maps and both times. Report the same day — the backups reach back only about two days. Contact admin is in your profile menu; the Guides page has a question box.
